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London: Religious Tract Society, 1907. First Edition. Illustrated with 17 full-page plates and a folding map of Congo at the end of the volume. Thick 8vo, publisher's original brick-red cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. xx, 446, [14 ads.] pp. A fine and handsome copy, clean and very well preserved. FIRST EDITION, AN EXPANSIVE AND ELUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF A CONGO PIONEER, WRITTEN BY HIS WIFE. A fine work with extensive commentary on the geography, the people and the social and cultural interactions of the period. An enlightening look into Congo at a time that the Belgian's were establishing rule over a vast area of the territory.

New York: Pantheon, 1999. First edition, first issue, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original black boards lettered in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjacket. 309 pp. A very fine copy, essentially as new. SIGNED BY THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNING AUTHOR, and dated the year of publication, 11/16/99. Along with the PEN/Hemingway, WAITING also took home the National Book Award.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First Edition, First Printing of this cornerstone work of American literature, the ads dated "June 1854" with no bibliographical significance as noted by BAL, though these were printed prior to the July 1854 publication of the book. Illustrated with the map of Walden Pond printed on a separate leaf and inserted at p. 306, and with a vignette illustration to the title-page showing Thoreau's house in the woods at Walden Pond. 8vo, in the publisher’s original ribbed brown cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in blind on spine, bordered and decorated in blind on all covers with small floral designs coming in from the corners towards a large central floral scrollwork, pale yellow flies and endpapers. Now housed in a light brown cloth-covered folding case and with wrap around chemise, the spine of the case with a dark brown morocco label lettered in green. 357, [8 ads (dated June 1854)] pp. A especially handsome copy indeed, one of the nicest we've seen in quite some… Read More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1864. First Edition and THE COPY BELONGING TO GRANT HIMSELF, WITH HILL HOUSE MARKINGS, FROM HILL HOUSE, MORAY, BANFFSHIRE, SCOTLAND. THIS IS FROM THE HOUSE OCCUPIED BY JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT AND THIS COPY IS RECORDED AS BELONGING TO THE AUTHOR. With the folding map of the walk done by Grant and Speke Across Africa, contained in pocket in back cover. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt with gilt decorations at the head and tail, covers with decorative borders in blind, the upper cover bearing a large vignette decoration of the M’Ganda warrior saluting impressed in gilt. xviii, 452, [34 ads] pp. An internally fine and fresh copy, partially unopened. The cloth does bear some old evidence of water at the lower right corner of the upper cover and to the lower cover. There is a repaired tear to the cloth. The gilt remains bright on both the spine and upper cover, and the binding is solid and tight. VERY RARE, THIS IS… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 2002. SIGNED COPY, First Edition, First Printing. With illustrated double-titlepage. 8vo, publisher’s original brown boards backed in black and in the original dustjacket. 291pp. A mint and as pristine copy. WALK THROUGH DARKNESS is a provocative meditation on racial identity, freedom and equality. It is the story of a fugitive slave in Antebellum America, who must run a terrifying gauntlet, eluding the many who would re-enslave him while learning to trust the few who dare to aid him on his quest.

New York: G.P. Putman's Sons, 1994. First Edition, a Signed, Presentation Copy from the author. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth over black paper covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the pictorially illustrated dustjacket. 270 pp. A pristine, as mint copy. SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN PRISTINE CONDITION. "Heady and sardonic, with an unpredictable cast of lovers, liars, killers, and clowns, Walking Shadow entertains even as it ponders the instability of identities. It is a thoroughly engrossing performance by a classic talent.

New York: Limited Editions Club, printed at The Marchbanks Press, 1957. First Edition, 1258 of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator. This copy with the original prospectus and letter describing the book and its production. Illustrated with 12 powerful aquatints by William Sharp, pulled on hand-made Arches white paper.. 4to, publisher's original black linen edged on the front and back covers with tan linen panels, lettered in gilt and green on the spine panel, and housed in the original slipcase. x, 545 pp. A very fine copy, very lightly mellowed at the spine panel, still very pleasing and internally clean with only a small bit of edgewear to the slipcase. FIRST EDITION WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM SHARPE. NTRODUCTION BY GEORGE N. SHUSTER. The illustrations throughout the text are profuse and are rendered from pen and ink drawings. There are twelve original aquatints on full-page plates. This highly regarded work came out of the travail of the Second World War. Long considered… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1909. Early printing. Frontispiece illustration. Small 8vo, in a school prize binding of full scarlet calf richly gilt in the panels of the spine, with the school cypher on the upper cover. vi, 251. Spine a bit dry, foxing to the preliminary and final blanks, else a nice copy. From the "Twelve English Statesmen" series. A pretty little binding.

London: Longman & Co., 1835. 2 volumes. First Edition. Illustrated with early lithographs and wood engravings, including an engraved frontispiece to each volume, engraved vignette title-page to each volume and ten other engraved plates, and with a fine large folding map at the end of Vol. I, complete as called for. 8vo, in the very rare publisher's original ribbed dark olive cloth, the spines gilt lettered within an ornate gilt frame. x, 330; v, 358 pp. An unusually bright set of this important work, the bindings showing only some rubbing at the bottom of the spine panels caused by shelving, the upper hinge on volume two is rather weak, internally fine with just some of the typical browning to the edges of the plates as is usual to engravings of the period, the text-block very clean and fresh. FIRST EDITION OF A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK, SELDOM SEEN AT ALL, VERY RARE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH AND IN THIS CONDITION. The account of the author’s travels during his ten years of residence in the Cape.… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913. First Edition. With a Frontispiece in colour by Edith S. Lees and 60 photographic illustrations by the Author and a folding Map at the end of the volume. 8vo, publisher's original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, upper cover framed in blind. 350 including the index pp. A very nice copy, near as fine, clean, tight, with very little evidence of age or use.. FIRST EDITION OF THIS HANDSOME AND WELL ILLUSTRATED BOOK. A complete tour with illustrations through one of the most beautiful areas of greater Italy. The author cover the Valley of the Nervia, the road to San Remo, Bussana, the Impero and Arroscia, Albeng and along the coast to Finalmarina and Genoa where some fine rambles are described, on to Mote Portofino, to Varese Ligure and the Spezzia and beyond. A well illustrated book.

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. 2 volumes. First edition. With a folding map in Volume I and frontispiece plate in Volume II. 8vo, finely bound in the best antique full crushed morocco gilt by Birdsall of England, the covers with triple gilt fillet lines at the borders, the spines fully gilt with raised bands gilt decorated, compartments with elaborate panel designs in gilt incorporating corner tools and fillet lines, head and tail of spines gilt decorated, all board edges gilt, turnovers rolled, tooled and ruled in gilt, subtle marbled endleaves, t.e.g., original cloth covers and spine panels bound in at the end of each volume. x, 303; vi, 295 pp. A beautiful and very handsome set produced by one of England’s foremost and collectible binders. Some light aging at the hinges, otherwise a very fine, clean, bright and well preserved copy with virtually no evidence of use. SUCH COPIES, SO HANDSOMELY BOUND AND SIGNED BY IMPORTANT ENGLISH BINDERS ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Burton was… Read More

New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. 6 volumes. First edition in English, First Issue of each volume with the proper dating and Gottsberger imprint to the verso of each title-page. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, with black tooled borders and gilt pictorial decorations in all over designs to the covers. 322, [6 ads]; 357, [2 ads]; 321; 270, [10 ads]; ii, 290, [10 ads]; 391. A very pleasing set of this rare survival. The original cloth remains in quite good condition, the hinges are strong and tight, some light edgewear to expected areas of the cloth, the tips and the spine ends just a bit rubbed primarily from shelving, two volumes with a bit more wear to the tips of the spines than the others. Ads comport with those in the copy at Harvard University. RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. A COMPLETE SET OF FIRST ISSUE VOLUMES, ALL IN ORIGINAL BINDINGS AND IN A PLEASING STATE OF PRESERVATION. Tolstoy’s epic of the Napoleonic wars has few peers in… Read More

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903. First Edition and printing. With 66 fine and handsomely reproduced colour plates from the author's sketches and drawings. Large 8vo, in the publisher's original navy blue cloth, the upper cover and spine gilt lettered and decorated in red and orange, t.e.g. xiii, 274 pp. A very good and handsome copy, the plates are all very fine, the text with only a little mellowing, the binding is strong and sturdy and attractive with a little edge wear and minor bumping and a few spots on the blue cloth. A FASCINATING ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE BOER WARS. The author, Captain Stratford Edward St Leger, commanded the Cork Company MI of the Royal Irish Regiment. Although his family was of French/Irish origin he was born in the Cape Colony in 1867 the son of the Anglican Rector of Queenstown. He was educated in England, at Tonbridge school and completed his education at Diocesan College in Rondebosch. He entered the Royal Irish Regiment in 1890 and was an accomplished… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. First of the Edition, Limited and Signed by Fritz Kredel. With the original letter announcing and describing the publication of the book included. With over thirty hand-coloured drawings by Fritz Kredel throughout. 8vo, publisher's original quarter blue silk finished linen over boards, lettered in gilt on the spine and pictorially decorated in navy on both covers. Housed in the original blue slipcase. 261 pp. A fine copy, as pristine, with a bit of mellowing only to the slipcase. FIRST OF THE EDITION. George Orwell called the novel "probably the most successful" of Trollope's "clerical series", and "one of his best works". 'The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly warden of Hiram's Hospital and precentor of Barchester Cathedral, in the fictional county of Barsetshire. The story concerns the impact upon Harding and his circle when a zealous young reformer, John Bold, launches a campaign to expose the disparity in the… Read More

The Associated Press, [1964]. First Edition. With numerous photographs throughout. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in white, presidential seal and decorations in white and yellow on covers and spine. xiii, 366. A very good and handsome copy. Very well preserved with little age evidence. Presented is the classic report of the Kennedy autopsy, witness accounts, and all studies opened for public view. The contents of this book remain the leading sources and information on the assasination of President John F. Kennedy, and have been so for forty years. It will not be until 2029 that new information regarding the assassination of President Kennedy will be unveiled.

London: Macmillan and Company, 1863. First edition, without the L'Envoi leaf as is almost always encountered as the author had it removed from all but the first 200 or so copies. With two full page plates by J. Noel Paton and with a number of small illustrations used throughout as opening initials. 8vo, in a very fine and very handsome Bayntun of Bath binding of full navy crushed morocco, the covers decorated with handsome all-over geometric gilt framework tooling, the spine with gilt tooled raised bands separating compartments with matching geometric gilt decorations, two compartments gilt lettered, wide gilt decorated turn-ins and marbled endpapers, a.e.g., The publisher's original green cloth preserved and bound in the rear, the upper piece with central gilt Water Baby vignette, the spine piece gilt lettered. Also retained is the original half-title. Now all in preserved in a blue cloth slipcase with chemise. 350 pp. A very beautiful and very handsome copy, the text wonderfully bright and… Read More

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1865. 48 volumes, complete and extended. An early printing of the complete collection, and a set with fine provenance, having belonged to Henry Lee of Boston. With engraved frontispiece and vignette title page in each volume and a profusion of engravings throughout the text. It contains, with a few exceptions, all the woodcuts that appeared in the Abbotsford Edition, besides the steel plates belonging to the original edition in forty-eight volumes as here. Sir Walter Scott took great pleasure in forming a museum at Abbotsford of the antiquities which illustrated the historical events and personages recorded in his writings. Small 8vo, contemporary three-quarter dark-green crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the spines with raised bands gilt ruled and stopped, the compartments richly gilt with elaborate tooling filling the panels, two compartments lettered in gilt, marbled edges, marbled end-leaves A handsome set in pleasing condition, a small… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1959. First of the edition thus, one of 1,500 copies only, signed by the artist. With the monthly newsletter describing the book and its production. Illustrated with sixteen colour paintings by T.M. Cleland. 8vo, in the publisher’s rich maroon linen stamped with an overall design reminiscent of an 18thc brocade, lettered in gilt on the spine. In the slipcase. xxiii, 108 pp. A fine copy, as pristine. The slipcase with only minimal evidence of shelving. FIRST OF THE EDITION. With elegant, old-world illustrations by T.M. Cleland.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. First edition, first printing. 4to, publisher’s original stiff gray paper wraps, printed in black and red. Now housed in an attractive custom clamshell box of tan cloth covered boards, with a brown morocco label lettered in gilt. 88 pp. A very good copy and well preserved copy, a touch of light age mellowing, less than would be usually expected, rear wrapper and "About the Authors" leaf with a less than 1 inch tear with no loss and neatly repaired from the versos. FIRST EDITION AND PRINTING, THE DELICATE WRAPPERS WELL PRESERVED. Drawing its title from the famous Zola work on the Dreyfus Affair; the Alsop brothers trace out the Oppenheimer case, concluding it was the result of certain factions who only wanted him removed position of influence. “This strongly worded and solidly documented book is a defense of J. Robert Oppenheimer and an indictment of the government’s (present) security system.” In time, and due to the efforts of journalist… Read More

New York: J. B. Ford & Company, 1875. First Edition. Illustrated with eight charming engravings. 8vo, publisher's original sienna cloth gilt lettered and decorated in black on the upper cover and in black and gilt on the spine. vi, 480 pp. A fine copy, uncommonly bright and clean, with very minor evidence of age. FIRST EDITION. The last of Stowe’s society novels, We and Our Neighbors is the sequel to My Wife and I. In the book, Stowe continues the heartwarming tale of Harry and Eva Henderson and their domestic ups and downs. Lighthearted in tone, the book reveals much about Stowe’s views of women and the primacy of their domestic roles.